Composer

In Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga set out to explore Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. The starting point for this new choreographic work is the exquisite recording of Vivaldi’s composition by virtuosic violinist and long-time Rosas collaborator Amandine Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti.

Rosas - Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione

Sadler's Wells Theatre

Elevate your musical experience with our Sound of Innovation performances. This distinctive series, where innovation meets classical virtuosity, immerses you into a mix of traditional and contemporary compositions. Your experience includes dinner and a drink ticket

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The Sound of Innovation

The Club Room at The Clyde

Step into a concert alive with energy, color, and transformation! For the very first time, a Dayton Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra joins the String Principals Quartet. In this special event, feel the sparkle of birdsong and the crash of summer storms in Vivaldi’s “Spring” and “Summer,” then be charmed by the playfulness and lyric beauty of Dvořák’s Seven Interludes. It’s an afternoon of vivid storytelling through music—and the start of something new. Additional musical selections to be announced soon!

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Schuster Center

One of perhaps two handfuls of the most famous works in the entire history of music is exactly 300 years old – and still enjoys immense popularity: Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" is actually a collection of four violin concertos that capture the seasons in impressively audible tones. Spring thunders and lightning, summer suffers from the heat, farmers celebrate in autumn, and winter bites with cold. We hear the forces of nature, animal sounds, and human life in the cycle of a year. Host Thomas Scholz takes the young listeners on a journey through Vivaldi's masterpiece, which not only demonstrates the capabilities of program music, but also the versatility of a solo violin's sound.

The Four Seasons

Free Waldorf School Göttingen

Janine Jansen has no problem playing popular works like Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" again and again, because, as she says, "ultimately, every interpretation is unique." The CAMERATA audience can also expect such unique performances when the orchestra's artistic partner embarks on an adventurous and atmospheric journey through the Italian seasons of the early 18th century, still unclouded by climate change. The music magazine Stereoplay praised Janine Jansen's performance of "The Seasons" as "a completely natural, breathing flow." Janine Jansen also brings two other great Italian Baroque violinists into play, bundled together in one work: Vivaldi's contemporary Geminiani reworked a violin sonata by Corelli on the voluptuous Portuguese dance "folía" into a brilliant concerto grosso. Jansen and the CAMERATA will demonstrate how productive this concert form still is in our time in a string concerto by film music king Nino Rota from 2007 and a charming concerto combination for string quartet, string orchestra and harpsichord by Richard Dubugnon from 2020.

Season Concert Five: The Four Seasons

Mozarteum Foundation

Bob Bernhardt conducts Dominique Kim and the orchestra in a must-hear version of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dreams, Suite No.2. Join us at St. Cecilia for an evening of music and fun for a concert that is filled with ancient dreams being brought to life.

An Evening Concert with Bob

St. Cecilia Music Center

Join the Grand Rapids Symphony and Bob Bernhardt as he makes his debut on the chamber series. He will conduct a must-hear performance of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No.2. Coffee and doughnuts will be available before the concert.

Coffee with Bob

What hardly anyone knows: nowhere else (outside Argentina) is as much tango played and danced as in Finland, nowhere else in the world is so much coffee and milk drunk, and what was previously only known to the initiated: one of the best baroque orchestras comes from Helsinki! In 1989, news of the historically-informed performance practice also reached Finland; young professional musicians founded an ensemble that was called the ‘Sixth Floor Orchestra’ for 20 years, named after the practice room (without a lift!). Initially they gave guest performances in neighbouring Scandinavia, but the unconventional group soon made a name for itself in Canada and China with excellent reviews. They have brought Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann with them to the concert in Frankfurt, where the overture, concerto and suite will give them ample opportunity to demonstrate how double dotting, ornamentation and historically informed bowing is done in Finland. The connection with water and tides is certainly felt more intensely on the Nordic coasts, which is why Telemann's orchestral suite ‘Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth’ from 1732 is a fitting homage to the all-connecting ocean. (Frankfurter Bachkonzerte e. V.)

Finnish Baroque Orchestra

Alte Oper

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

Bassoon Quartet

Église Saint-Pierre de Palavas-Les-Flots

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble presents a classical music concert on period instruments of the music of J.S. Bach and Antonio Vivaldi.

Bach Encounters Vivaldi / The Weimar Years: 1708-1717

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church

Upcoming highlights of ArcoStrum’s 2024-2025 season include debuts at Merkin Hall, Krannert Center, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Howland Chamber Music Circle, Rancho La Puerta, and Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society. Recent seasons have featured performances at Carnegie Hall Citywide, Strings Music Festival, Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts, Festival Cultural Zacatecas (Mexico), National Sawdust, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and Caramoor.

ArcoStrum

Bethel United Methodist Church

Baroque music is often presented as grand, serious and a little... cautious. However, the ensemble "Dar vieni" thinks differently. They invite you to a concert in which Baroque is freed from museum frames - it is alive, pulsating. For the ensemble, Baroque is not only counterpoints and ornaments. It is an era in which emotions are no less than today, you just need to blow the dust off it. The ensemble wants to take this music in your hands, move it, feel how it breathes. It wants the listener to be more than just an observer - to get involved, feel the rhythm, emotion, and maybe even forget that they are sitting in a concert hall. Because Baroque music was not written for museums, but for people. It was intended to celebrate, mourn, express passion and inner vibrations - and it still can. You just need to let it live.

"Another One" - Baroque Without Dust

Paliesius Manor

Immerse yourself in the sounds of the seasons with Vivaldi's most famous set of violin concertos. Acclaimed violinist Timothy Chooi plays and conducts the Calgary Phil in these remarkable works that evoke such seasonal phenomena as singing birds, buzzing flies, violent thunderstorms, and icy blizzards, as well as vibrant scenes portraying a sleepy goatherd and his barking dog, a harvest celebration, and a warm winter fire.

Arts Commons

Eboracum Baroque performs one of the most famous pieces of baroque music ever written in the 18th century arrangement for recorder, harpsichord and cello, an arrangement which Vivaldi knew and supported. It is truly virtuosic and at times features two recorders being played at once!  The music takes the listener on a journey through the four seasons from the singing of birds in Spring, a fierce thunderstorm in Summer, celebrating the harvest festival in Autumn and trembling in the icy cold of Winter.

Eboracum Baroque

Leeds Conservatoire

Concert lesson

lower secondary school Renato Fucini

Italian violinist and conductor Fabio Biondi, world-renowned for “blazing, fierce performances” (Washington Classical Review) with his ensemble Europa Galante, brings his irrepressible energy to the Orchestra as he leads a high-voltage program centered around Vivaldi, those who inspired him (Geminiani and Corelli), and those he inspired, like Nardini and Pugnani. Concertmaster Gina DiBello joins Biondi for Vivaldi’s Concerto for 2 Violins in G Minor. Make new discoveries and hear familiar favorites afresh!

Vivaldi & Friends

Harris Theater

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

No other animal sounds resemble music as much as birds. Many composers have thus been inspired by nightingales, larks, swans and other feathered artists of flight and song. A concert in cooperation with the Phil-CO2 Initiative and the Landesbund für Vogel- und Naturschutz (LBV).

Bird­song

Nuremberg State Theater

Gianandrea Noseda and the Zurich Opera Orchestra – a well-rehearsed team, masterfully skilled at the intense portrayal of powerful emotions and supporting famous voices. Together with star soprano Regula Mühlemann, they present a collage of Passion-themed works at the Elbphilharmonie this Easter, focusing on the figure of the suffering Mother of God.

Orchester der Oper Zürich / Regula Mühlemann / Gianandrea Noseda

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Bella Italia

Granada Theatre

Charismatic and accomplished violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte returns to Berkeley with his ensemble partner from Le Consort, harpsichordist Justin Taylor, for a thrilling program of Baroque showpieces.

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin Justin Taylor, harpsichord

University of California, Berkeley

Undoubtedly the finest example of the baroque tradition and the most popular of the composer's 350 concertos, a recital of his enchanting and magnificent Four Seasons is an essential experience for any fan of classical music, be it your first time or your fiftieth. Presented under flickering candlelight, enjoy Vivaldi's sensational work performed by a talented string quartet in this fever original event.

Candlelight: Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Wadham College

Michael Abels’ More Seasons is a modern interpretation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, specifically “Spring” and “Summer,” but with a “maniacal, Minimalist abuse” of the original themes, as Abels himself has stated. It’s often described as “Vivaldi in a Mixmaster.” A review of the first performance stated that Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto “is the most admirable, singular, artistic and complex Beethoven concerto ever.” Written in 1855 at the age of 17 and never played during his lifetime, Bizet’s Symphony in C was “discovered” in 1933. It has been in the symphonic repertoire ever since due to its beautiful melodies, rich orchestration, and elegant charm.

Beethoven & Bizet

Duluth Entertainment Convention Center

Ottone in villa

Teatro Malibran

You've never seen the Four Seasons like this! A fascinating multimedia experience for all the family.

Germany from above - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

This all-strings program features FMSO’s string section while concertmaster, Sonja Bosca-Harasim, takes center stage as the featured soloist in Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, creating a dialogue between Baroque elegance and 20th-century tango.

The Seasons of Vivaldi & Piazzolla

North Dakota State University

The Peninsula Symphony is thrilled to present the iconic Canadian Brass in concert with the Peninsula Symphony, led by guest conductor Brad Hogarth. With over 2 million album sales and decades of Billboard chart-topping hits, the Canadian Brass’ success is unmatched, acknowledged by sold-out audiences throughout the world. Their program includes many of their great hits, and spans the musical world from Bach to jazz to the Beatles. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the amazing Canadian Brass.

Canadian Brass

Heritage Theatre

Capuchino High School

This delightful concert features Vivaldi’s beloved Four Seasons, Holst’s Lyric Movement, and Mozart’s majestic Jupiter Symphony, performed by the talented Amarillo Chamber Orchestra.

Seasons of Celestial Joy

St Andrew's Episcopal Church

Step into the grandeur of the Baroque era in Legacy Hall with a thrilling musical showdown between Italy’s fiery virtuosity and England’s stately elegance. The South blazes with the dazzling brilliance of Vivaldi, Corelli, and Torelli, their music overflowing with passion and intricate ornamentation. The North counters with the regal splendor of Handel’s Water Music, featuring majestic horns and sweeping melodies that evoke the power of England’s royal courts. Between the musical duels, enjoy an extended intermission with a delightful reception, where the echoes of Baroque opulence linger in the air.

CSO: N vs S: Battle of Baroque

RiverCenter for the Performing Arts

Welcome spring with one of classical music’s most recognizable works, Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Antonín Dvořák’s cheerful and melodic piece for string orchestra, Serenade in E major op. 22 is known for its light, graceful character, often described as idyllic and peaceful.

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons

Trinity Christian College

The devil played the violin for Tartini in a dream. The music was charismatic, electrifying, fiendishly difficult and utterly transfixing. Tartini awoke and transcribed the melody, penning the Devil’s Trill sonata. It can only be played by someone astounding.

The Devil’s Violin

ACO On The Pier

Austrian recorder player Dora Donata Sammer is one of the most exciting voices of the younger generation. As a soloist and chamber musician, she captivates audiences with her stylistic versatility and bold exploration of sound. In our popular Lounge Concert series, she re-examines the boundaries between early and contemporary music.

2. Through each other

New Theater Halle

Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra have Vivaldi in their blood. More precisely, in their bow. The Venetian master composer translated the chatter of his hometown into musical characters. To enhance the international flair of her performance of the popular Four Seasons, Marcon’s musical native speakers have invited a French-Swiss baroque violinist with Armenian roots. Chouchane Siranossian is a star on her instrument who we look forward to presenting at the Festspielhaus.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Let’s all agree: The Four Seasons is an undisputed classical Top 40s hit. But, when Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital plays it, you’ll feel like you’re hearing it for the first time — fresh and irresistible. Part of your fun will be listening to Vivaldi’s spot-on sound effects—birds, a barking dog, gnats and flies, the chattering of teeth, and slipping on ice. This is a piece for all seasons! Plus, Mozart’s “Haffner,” with a frolicking finale that he instructed had to be played “as fast as possible.”

Mozart & Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

The moment when there is no turning back, no “return to what was,” runs through this multi-part ballet evening. Xie Xin and Marcos Morau, two extraordinary and internationally acclaimed artists, are creating world premieres for Hamburg Ballet for the first time. The “point of no return” is explored by Angelin Preljocaj in *Annonciation*, at the moment of the biblical Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel.

Point Of No Return

Ballettzentrum Hamburg – John Neumeier

Sparkling, elegant, and full of musical fireworks! We bookend this program with two of Handel’s most celebrated works—Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks—with Stacy Garrop’s Spectacle of Light as a shimmering tribute. In between, violinist Eric Gratz shines in Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s passionate Primavera Porteño.

Baroque Spectacle

Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre

Mid-Texas Symphony presents Baroque Spectacle

BroadStage presents a spectacular collaboration of musical excellence as Avi Avital, considered by many to be the world’s greatest mandolinist, takes the stage with the renowned Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra! Hailed by The New York Times as “explosively charismatic” in live performance, Avital is the first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical GRAMMY® Award. He is known for reinvigorating the mandolin and shaping its history and future, while playing it in the most prestigious halls all over the world. 

Avital is joined by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, praised by The New York Times as “America’s leading historically informed ensemble.” Among the most recorded orchestras in the world, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performs on period-specific instruments, presenting repertoire ranging from early Baroque to late Romantic, along with new contemporary works and major operatic productions.

Avi Avital & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

The Broad Stage

The Folk Opera House will be the arena for Antonio Vivaldi's baroque opera Olympiaden. Here, athletes and artistic souls compete side by side in a pulsating and sporty drama of confusion – under the influence of big politics, sensual confusion and heartbreaking trials of friendship . Olympiaden is directed by the all-round artist Charlotte Engelkes.

In Olympiad , forbidden love, mistaken identities, murder plots and missing siblings come together in a musical showdown filled with adrenaline and movement. The plot revolves around the prince of Crete, Licida" class="css-u850">Licida, a charming but untrained rookie in the arena of love and sport. In order to win the heart of Princess Aristea, he is faced with the match of his life. He asks his well-trained friend, Megacle, to compete in his place. Megacle accepts the sporting challenge, unaware that he is about to compete away his own fiancé. At the same time, Licida's neglected fiancée Argena appears and things heat up both in the competition arena and in her emotional life. But anything can happen and everything can turn around - it is only in the final that it is decided.

The Olympiad

Celebrate Carnivale with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, led by violinist Gianpiero Zanocco. This program, titled A Venetian Duel of Bows, transports audiences to 18th-century Venice, showcasing the virtuosity and rivalry of the city’s great violinists. The program features concertos and sonatas by Vivaldi, Veracini, Tartini, and Locatelli, highlighting the dazzling technical displays and expressive melodies that characterized the Venetian Baroque style. Zanocco, who has been a member of the Venice Baroque Orchestra since 2003 and currently serves as its First Violin Shoulder, brings a deep understanding of the Venetian Baroque tradition and a remarkable technical command to this performance. This concert promises to be a vibrant and spirited celebration of Venetian musical heritage and of Venice’s Carnivale—with Venetian masks encouraged!

Venice Baroque Orchestra

Lobero Theatre

Carnivale with Venice Baroque Orchestra

Evergreen Vivaldi

Teatro alla Scala

The group Billboard calls “…a testament that any genre can thrive in classical music” joins the BSO for a thrilling performance. Led by Jacomo Bairos, the Nu Deco Experience fuses past and present, reimagining Earth, Wind & Fire and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with jazz, hip-hop, and pop. It's classical fusion, with the full power of your BSO! This concert is part of the EARTH | Songs Festival.

Reimagined: Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

Chamber Concert 3

WDR Funkhaus

Six Orchestra Lumos cellists, 24 strings, and one amazing sound!

The Cellos of Lumos

The Westport Library

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

Cape Fear Community College

This concert is your chance to hear some of the most famous classical music ever written, live in Derby.

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…. Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons depicts the passing of the year in evocative string music, from a barking dog in spring to an icy storm of winter. It takes a special violinist to bring it to life, and we have our own, Sophie Rosa, to perform it for you.

If that’s not enough Baroque’n’roll, we’ve also got Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 – with its second movement also known as the Air on a G String in a later adaptation. And for Baroque (coronation) anthems, we’re joined by Derby Cathedral Choir for music celebrating the coronation of King George II in 1727. Or, as you might know Handel’s Zadok The Priest, the music crowning Paris St Germain, Real Madrid and Manchester City as the official anthem of the UEFA Champions League.

Derby Cathedral

The Four Seasons, four evocative violin concerti by the Venetian composer, violinist, poet, and cleric Antonio Vivaldi (affectionately known as the Red Priest because of his flaming red hair), are considered the crown jewels of the Italian baroque. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote of the 1960 quartet on which the haunting Chamber Symphony is based, “When I die, no one will write music in my memory, so I decided to write it myself.” Heinrich Biber’s imaginative Battaglia is an early baroque soundscape of battle preparations, blunted by drunken musketeer songs, and war, ending with a mournful lament.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Winspear Centre

Music from the court of Versailles begins and ends this sparkling exploration of the baroque. Jonathan Cohen leads a slimmed-down BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and shows just how flexible this group of players can be, as they weave their way through a selection of dances, fugues and concertos.

Music of the Sun King

RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music)

In this cozy winter program, eight Apollo’s Fire musicians set sparks flying in virtuoso works of J.S. Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, and more. Debra Nagy takes the spotlight in a lively Vivaldi oboe concerto, while Kathie Stewart and Alan Choo lead a fiery chamber performance of Bach’s Orchestral Suite no. 2. Viola da gambist HyunKun Cho steals the thunder in Marais’ famous Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève, an imaginative showpiece evoking the sounds of church bells in Paris.

Winter Sparks from Bach & Vivaldi

Rocky River Presbyterian Church

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cleveland Heights

Federated Church

First United Methodist Church, Cuyahoga Falls

When mandolin and bağlama meet, a dialogue is created between two cultures that have more in common than it seems at first glance. Derya Yıldırım and Avi Avital explore the connection between baroque, folklore and contemporary chamber music with the sonically experimental Ensemble Resonanz. Together they create an evening that rethinks traditions, tells stories and builds musical bridges – from Anatolia to Europe, between past and present.

Ensemble Resonanz / Derya Yildirim / Avi Avital

This intimate concert showcases the Baroque and Neoclassical eras alongside contemporary American voices. Works include Jessie Montgomery’s energetic Starburst, Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, and Stravinsky’s playful Pulcinella Suite. Guest violinist Megan Karls joins the orchestra for Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, with additional selections from Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 and Vivaldi’s Concerto for Strings RV156.

Life

Casper College

Danielle Simandl, Violin

Fox Cities Performing Arts Center

The Washington Chorus joins Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO for three choral masterpieces by Brahms. Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) and Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) grapple with fate’s inescapable hand—one offering celestial consolation, the other a foreboding omen. Nänie, named for the Roman goddess, is a powerful requiem set to the poem by Friedrich von Schiller. These mesmeric works choral set the stage for a visceral finale: Schumann’s Symphony No. 2.

Songs of Destiny & Fate

Kennedy Center

Cello and double bass duo

Collégiale Notre-Dame de la Carce

Vivaldi meets the Middle East in this engaging and immersive concert experience! Discover the intersection of baroque and folk with Persian and Swedish music and instruments. Mohammad Sahraei, a multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist originally from Iran, plays the tar and daf, while our very own Kirsty Money plays the nyckelharpa in this concert of Middle Eastern and European classics. Symphony Nova Scotia also premieres Vivaldi’s “Grosso Mogul” Violin Concerto – one of the most famous concertos of the Baroque era apart from The Four Seasons – and performs highlights from Telemann, Purcell, Geminiani, Mozart, and more.

Vivaldi Meets the Middle East

St. Andrew's United Church

Come in from the cold and join the Rochester Symphony String Quartet for a casual concert in the warmth of candlelight at the beautiful Historic Chateau Theatre. Musicians will perform some of their favorite chamber music selections along with commentary. To further warm your spirits, Bitter and Pour will provide mulled wine and seasonal cocktails/mocktail for purchase.

Cold Weather, Warm Music

Peace Plaza

As a boy, Giovanni’s parents wanted to enrol him in the preparatory department of the Milan Conservatoire. According to the school, their son was too high-spirited, and he was not admitted as a violin student, but he soon more than made up for their disappointment. He studied the recorder, and while still a student, he joined with the lute player Luca Pianca in establishing Il Giardino Armonico—an ensemble that has won worldwide renown over its 40 years of existence in the field of the informed interpretation of early music.

Czech Philharmonic • Giovanni Antonini

Rudolfinum

A 19-time GRAMMY® winner who has performed for nine American presidents and has been presented with the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, cellist Yo-Yo Ma is a phenomenal musician whose unshakeable joy shines through his virtuosic performances. He will perform the Dvořák Cello Concerto, a work for which he is renowned; his definitive recordings of the piece are treasured by music lovers.

Yo-Yo Ma Returns

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Ringing in the New Year with a concert has long been considered good form in Austria. Wolfgang Hentrich and the German String Philharmonic have already celebrated numerous successes on the Austrian concert stage and, together with the magnificent pianist Rafał Blechacz, invite you to a joint kick-off for 2026. The program is based on the motto "Con anima!" – when composers want to hear their works played this way, they desire a particularly emotional expression, a "soulful" way of making music. And this New Year's program is soulful through and through. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returned to Salzburg from Italy with his father shortly before Christmas 1771, brimming with new ideas and impressions he had brought back from the south. He soon composed three divertimenti – pure light music – for his new employer in Salzburg, Prince-Archbishop Colloredo. The first Divertimento, K. 136, became particularly famous, opening cheerfully with an elegantly floating first movement. It is no surprise that the melody is one of the best known from Mozart's pen. After this introduction, we are on our way to Paris; the city on the Seine was also the destination of the 20-year-old Frédéric Chopin when he premiered his Piano Concerto in E minor in October 1830. The concert was a musical farewell to his Polish homeland, which the composer shares with the piano virtuoso Rafał Blechacz. For more than 20 years, the young pianist has been a fixture in the international concert scene, not only as a proven Chopin expert – these joint appearances with the German String Philharmonic are already their second collaboration. And finally, a New Year's Concert can also offer a colorful bouquet: in the second half of the program, Wolfgang Hentrich and the String Philharmonic dedicate themselves to a rich selection of the most popular orchestral pieces by Vivaldi, Smetana, Dvořák and the Strauss dynasty, which provide an atmospheric round-off to the start of the year. Happy New Year!

Con anima! German String Philharmonic / Hentrich

Experience the power and grace of Vivaldi’s famous and familiar The Four Seasons as played and led by Concertmaster Jonathan Crow, joined by principal musicians Sarah Jeffrey (oboe), Heidi Elise Bearcroft (harp), and Rémi Pelletier (viola) who shine in solo turns from the Baroque repertoire.

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

Meridian Arts Centre

Hear the irresistible music that made Antonio Vivaldi a household name. The Four Seasons captures the elation of springtime and deep winter chill bundled in violinistic fireworks. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra opens with the perfect pairing to Vivaldi, the fierce and driving Symphony No. 25 by the 17-year-old Mozart. ASO Concertmaster David Coucheron headlines this special event.

The Woodruff Arts Center

Back by popular demand, “A Baroque New Year’s Eve at the Opera” will usher in the new year within San Francisco’s beautiful Herbst Theatre. Start an early night on the town with a delightful program of arias, duets, and instrumental music from Baroque opera and concert, with plenty of time left for more celebrations in the evening or an early return home for a peaceful night. Bring your family and friends to celebrate a New Year full of wonderful music.

A Baroque New Year's Eve at the Opera

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Professors of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra

Chieda Di Santa Maria Assunta - Church of Santa Maria a Panzano

Artists of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Chorus

Pieve di San Giovanni Battista a Remole

Founded 40 years ago, Concerto Köln is one of the outstanding protagonists of early music. It's fortunate that the journey to Duisburg is not far – and that the Duisburg Philharmonic also includes seasoned experts in musically informed performance practice. This creates ideal conditions for an extraordinary encounter in a concert that brings together well-known and lesser-known masterpieces by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Examples such as those of the Italian Antonio Vivaldi, the German George Frideric Handel, the Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rameau, the Bohemian Jan Dismas Zelenka, and the Englishman Henry Purcell demonstrate that all of Europe was shaken by the tremendous musical developments of this period. Some of these masters will perform "vocal specialties" – arias from operas or sacred works – or, like the piano pioneer Domenico Scarlatti, excerpts from their instrumental works. The name of countertenor Valer Sabadus, who is another guest from Cologne in Duisburg, shines as brilliantly as his voice.

From all over Europe

CityPalais

You could say Vivaldi had a kind of synesthesia when writing The Four Seasons. What does being cold feel and sound like? MacArthur Award-winning playwright and librettist Sarah Ruhl joins Anthony Roth Costanzo to co-conceive a tapestry of Vivaldi’s music, telling an original story about a world in which the seasons are completely out of order. Tony Award-winning set designer Mimi Lien collaborates with M.I.T. materials technologist Jack Forman to fuse art and science, bringing atmospheric events to the stage. Celebrated choreographer Pam Tanowitz creates a maelstrom of dance, director Zack Winokur helms the production, and Corrado Rovaris conducts the rapturous piece, which stars Costanzo.

“The Seasons” at Opera Philadelphia

You could say Vivaldi had a kind of synesthesia when writing The Four Seasons. What does being cold feel and sound like? MacArthur Award-winning playwright and librettist Sarah Ruhl joins Anthony Roth Costanzo to co-conceive a tapestry of Vivaldi’s music, telling an original story about a world in which the seasons are completely out of order. 

The Seasons

The star of the evening: the tuba, which will make the Brucknerhaus shake at this concert! As a pioneer of his instrument, Andreas Martin Hofmeir proves that the tuba also works very well as a solo instrument in the classical concert hall. The brass instrument shows itself to be surprisingly versatile when Hofmeir plays Duda's tuba concerto and lets Vivaldi's famous Winter be heard not from the violin, but from the low brass.

Duda on the tuba with Andreas M. Hofmeir at the Brucknerhaus

Brucknerhaus

Virtuoso concertos shiver and burn in this concert of Italian Baroque music featuring Vivaldi’s “Winter” concerto, and the premiere of a new work by Richmond’s own Chloe Biggs.

Fire And Ice

Holy Comforter Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA

Since 2010, chamber music ensembles of the Staatskapelle have been performing at the Bode Museum, a jewel of Berlin's museum landscape. Matinee concerts lasting just over an hour in the Gobelin Hall, with diverse programs that include music from the Baroque and Classical periods as well as works from the Romantic and Modern periods, can easily lead into further hours in the museum—for example, with a guided tour of the exhibition and the "Artwork of the Day," a private tour, or a culinary finale in the stylish museum café.

Museum Concert III

UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel

Christmas choral symphony with the Singakademie Frankfurt (Oder) and the BSOF

Concert of the Singakademie Frankfurt (Oder)

Brandenburg-Halle

Celebrate the festive season with an array of gorgeous light-filled music with our special guests, the Blackhawk Chorus. Rising-star violinist Simon Hagopian delights us with Vivaldi’s “Winter” and Beethoven’s glorious “Romance.”

Composer

Antonio Vivaldi

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 11 - Nov 15, 2026

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra · Teatro alla Scala

Feb 22 - Jun 25, 2026

Point Of No Return · Staatsoper Hamburg

8 - 9 May, 2026

Rosas - Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione · Sadler’s Wells Theatre

May 9, 2026

Jack Pasacreta, bassoon · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

May 10, 2026

Janine Jansen, violin · Alte Oper Frankfurt

Past events

8 - 9 May, 2026

Rosas - Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione · Sadler’s Wells Theatre

May 6, 2026

The Sound of Innovation · Fort Wayne Philharmonic

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